He’s directed to motels where he has reservations awaiting him. He has no credit cards and carries no ID. In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One Book 1) introduces us to Nameless and his mission. And if he can’t figure out where it takes place and how to deal with it, people will die. As the season progresses, he starts having a particular and unusual montage of clairvoyant glimpses that may be past, future, or some blending of the two. To up the ante and make things even more interesting, Nameless sometimes has clairvoyant flashes of things that have happened already or things that are to come. The organization behind him clearly has deep pockets and voluminous resources. He exacts “truth” rather than justice or revenge (supposedly), taking on different identities and delivering some sort of supposedly-deserved punishment. This group selects targets for him: bad people who have gotten away with murder and other horrible crimes. He works for a mysterious organization, and his contact is called simply the Ace of Diamonds.

He’s okay with this he has the feeling that he agreed to the artificially-induced amnesia, and that he’s better off not remembering who he was. The basic setup is this: “Nameless” is a man who only remembers the last two years of his life. The first books are episodic, and then a little bit of arc plot slips in, followed by a season-ender that includes arc-plot revelations. Dean Koontz’s Nameless: Season One is six short novelettes that do, in fact, resemble a season of a television show in structure.

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